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Now the hungry lion roars,And the wolf behowls the moon;Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,All with weary task fordone,Now the wasted brands do glow,Whilst the screeching-owl, screeching
loud,Puts the wretch that lies in woe,In remembrance of the shroud.Now it is the time of night- A Midsummer Night's Dream-William
Shakespeare

Its 12:02
a.m. of the 17th Day of May 2007
and I'm sitting in my room, listening to the song "Starry-starry night" by Don
McLean and wondering why verbs and subjects disagreeâ€¦ It's raining outside and
the sound of the drizzle and the smell of the earth is mesmerizing me. The
blank screen of my notebook is enticing me to pen down a few nothingsâ€¦.

All you paramours of language, today, in
this beautiful night, I am going to make verbs agree with their subjects. Here
are my proposals for the marital peace of subjects and their verbs.

Main Proposal:
Let plural subjects take plural verbs and singular subjects roam about with
singular verbs.

Proposal 1:- When two or more nouns are
present, ask the verb to agree with its proper subject instead of the noun near
it.The quality of language in
British books is outstanding.All the books on the rack are the
law books.

Proposal 2:- Some nouns are plural by
nature and like to be with plural verbs. Following are the names of these
famous nouns-Savings, thanks, surroundings, riches,
goods, outskirts, belongings, particulars, premises, clothes, earnings,
congratulations, people, police and staff.

Proposal 3:- When the verb is holding
hands with two or more subjects and wearing eitherâ€¦or or neitherâ€¦nor,
use a singular verb if the last subject is singular and a plural verb if the
last subject is plural.Neither Levin nor Kitty wants to
live in a city.Either John Galt or his representatives
are to stop the motor of the world.Either nurses or the doctor is
responsible for the wrong operation.

Proposal 4:- When two bachelor (singular)
subjects are joined by spinster "and", they form a pair (plural)Dolly and Oblonsky were the first one to
arrive.Bob and Roger are playing a guitar.

Proposal 5:- Listen to what nouns suggest,
if they suggest one idea to the mind, or refer to same person or thing,
then the verb would rather stay single.Bread and butter is kept in the
refrigerator.Time and tide waits for none.

Proposal 6:- Be cautious with the
following-Everyone, no one, anybody, somebody, everything,
each and every, each of, neither of, the majority of, all of, some of and
uncountable nouns.All of food is stolen.Knock! Knock! Is anybody there?

Proposal 7:- Economics, civics,
statistics, news, mathematics, wages, linguistics, phonetics, politics etc are
plural in form but singular in meaning and take a singular verb.Mathematics is TG's passion.Politics is the major part of the
corporate world.

Proposal 8:- When there is a group of
nouns (Collective nouns), a singular verb should be brought into action. When
the individuals of this group are addressed, we would like to use plural verbs.
The crowd is maddening.The population of Japanis on its life time low this year.

Proposal 9:- When noun denotes some
specific quantity or amount considered as a whole, we should agree on a
singular verb.One-fourth of the work is completed by
William.The five thousand yen that he gave me
was spent in a single day.

Proposal 10:- There are outsiders (words
and phrases) besides 'and' that attach themselves to the subject and make it look plural but the subject still stays the same. These are the famous intruders-as well as, accompanied by, including, along with, in addition to and
together with. So verbs, be careful!Leonidas,
along with his 300 Spartans, is going to fight against the Persian army.Books,
as well as music, are my passion.

Proposal 11:- When the subject is
commanding, ordering, or suggesting"you",
the person being directed by the subject has to disappear. (Subject expects
itself to be understood)(You) Listen to the sound of the music!(You) Suggest a plan for the month.

Proposal 12:- Both subject and verb give
special preference to "None". None can be treated as both singular and plural
until someone else in the crowd doesn't recognise its number.None of the men are ready for the
war,None of the men is ready for the
war.None of the dancers have given their
best. (Here you can't use singular because the word "their" precludes the use
of the singular verb.)

Proposal 13:- Sometimes nouns are playing tricks with you.
They can beguile you into thinking they are plural when they are not. Nouns
such as pants, pliers, glasses and scissors are regarded as plural (and prefer
being with plural verbs) unless they're precededby the phrase pair of, so be careful!The scissors are
lying on the table.A pair of scissors
is lying on the table.

Proposal 14:- If the sentence is giving both positive and
negative vibes, the verb will respond only to the subject giving positive
vibes..It is not Cynthia but her sisters who are married.It
was the subject of the movie, not the actors, that has charmed
the audience.

Now after being proposed in fourteen
different ways, the verbs will find it difficult not to agree with their subjects.

Its 4o clock in the morning and the
cuckoo bird on the tree beside my window has started singing. It's still
drizzling outside silently, reminding me of a songâ€¦

Sometimes I need some time...on my ownSometimes I need some time...all aloneEverybody needs some time...on their ownDon't you know you need some time...all
aloneâ€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦'Cause nothing' lasts foreverEven cold November rain

So here I, with puffy eyes and fatigued
body, end my article. *Yawn* Goodnight or Good Morning, whichever it is.

I have sorted out some sentences on subject verb agreement from sentence correction file. There cannot be a better practise than solving these questions.You have 24 hours to solve them. Post your answers to these questions over here.Happy solving

1.Among the emotions on display in
the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and
over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever
beginning to heal.

(A) were anger for repeatedly
raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from
earlier battles from ever beginning to heal

(B) was anger for repeatedly
raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever
beginning to heal

(C) were anger over repeatedly
raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin
healing

(D) was anger about the issue,
which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles,
still raw, to begin healingï¼ˆBï¼‰

(E) were anger about the issue,
which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles
to begin to heal

2.Although the bite of brown
recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the
greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to
its poison.

(A) brown recluse spiders are
rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to
the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(B) brown recluse spiders are
rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds and pose the greatest danger to
the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(C) the brown recluse spider is
rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the
infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(D) the brown recluse spider is
rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to
infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to itsï¼ˆDï¼‰

(E) the brown recluse spider is
rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to
the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

3.After this yearâ€™s record-shattering
January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble were touted as
the countryâ€™s best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything
but praise for the young musicians.

(A) the ensemble were touted as the
countryâ€™s

(B) the ensemble was touted as the
countryâ€™s

(C) the country touted the ensemble
like the

(D) touting the ensemble as the
countryâ€™sï¼ˆBï¼‰

(E) they were touting the ensemble
as the countryâ€™s

4.A new phenomena, which is visible
at Managuaâ€™s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which
include many children and mob cars at the stoplights.

(A) A new phenomena, which is
visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars,
which include many children and

(B) Visible at Managuaâ€™s major
intersections are waves of vendors and beggars with many children, new
phenomena that

(C) A new phenomenon visible at
Managuaâ€™s major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them
children, who

(D) Phenomenally new waves of
vendors, beggars, and many children are visible at Managuaâ€™s major
intersections, whichï¼ˆCï¼‰

(E) A wave of vendors and beggars,
many of whom are children, are visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections, where
they are a new phenomenon and

5.A Labor Department study states
that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five
percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two
percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

(A) numbers of women employed
outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase

(B) numbers of women employed
outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent

(C) numbers of women employed
outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent

(D) number of women employed
outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percentï¼ˆDï¼‰

(E) number of women employed
outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

6.Because paper of all kinds is the
biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried
recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(A) Because paper of all kinds is
the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried
recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(B) Because paper of all kinds is
the biggest single component in municipal trash, many municipalities tried to
recycle so that the cost of trash disposal is reduced.

(C) Because paper of all kinds are
the biggest single components in municipal trash, many municipalities have
tried to recycle to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(D) All kinds of paper are the
biggest single components of municipal trash, and so many municipalities have
tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.ï¼ˆAï¼‰

(E) All kinds of paper is the
biggest single component of municipal trash, so many municipalities have tried
to recycle so that the cost of trash disposal could be reduced.

7.Chinese, the most ancient of living
writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic characters, each
character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its own square frame.

(A) each character a miniature
calligraphic composition inside its

(B) all the characters a miniature
calligraphic composition inside their

(C) all the characters a miniature
calligraphic composition inside its

(D) every character a miniature
calligraphic composition inside theirï¼ˆAï¼‰

(E) each character a miniature
calligraphic composition inside their

8.Discrimination in wages paid in
occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have
given rise to substantial differentials between the wage of housepainters and
secretaries and between the wages of parking-lot attendants and library
assistants.

(A) paid in occupations that are
predominantly male over the predominantly female have

(B) paid in occupations that are
predominantly make over those that are predominantly female have

(C) that favors predominantly male
occupations over the predominantly female have

(D) that favors predominantly male
occupations over those that are predominantly female hasï¼ˆEï¼‰

(E) paid in predominantly male
occupations over the predominantly female has

9.Displays
of the aurora borealis, or â€œnorthern lights,â€ can heat the atmosphere over the
arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric
currents that can cause blackouts in some areas and corrosion in north-south
pipelines.

(A) to affect the trajectories of
ballistic missiles, induce

(B) that the trajectories of
ballistic missiles are affected, induce

(C) that it affects the
trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces

(D) that the trajectories of
ballistic missiles are affected and inducesï¼ˆEï¼‰

(E) to affect the trajectories of
ballistic missiles and induce

10.Dr. Sayreâ€™s lecture recounted
several little-known episodes in the relations between nations that
illustrates what is wrong with alliances and treaties that do not have
popular support.

(A) relations between nations that
illustrates

(B) relation of one nation with
another that illustrates

(C) relations between nations that
illustrate

(D) relation of one nation with
another and illustrateï¼‰(E) relations of nations that illustrates

Here are my
answers to the much awaited questions:-1)B for Brusque2)D for Decant3)B for
Burlesque 4)C for
Complacent5)D for
Descant6)A for Amiable7)A for
Amicable8)E for Esoteric9)E for
Exoteric10)B for
BedraggledI
want you all to find out the meanings of the words and frame some sentences. Post
your answers here. Okay! Now I am taking
care of your vocabulary as well!

That Dudhwala - Milkha singh makeing me so dumb that i lost here 2 marks .

I like your article especially the way of representing the concept is really heart touching. Have you fall in XXXX since all those expressions and actions are of the essence.........

Looking forward for similar articles and tests/assignments regularly ( ..I'm too lazy to collect all the CAT stuff then analyze and then study..,I want this http://totalgadha.com only way to do eveyting and do whatever you said (regarding prep.....) and give up all my worry and planning headache forever. So, Now it's your responsibility to maintain good balance of all the three sections. Can you do this favour for me? (...I'm expecting too much naa...If so sorry )

Thank You..Infact that was a good initiative ....we can discuss 10 good words every day...this ll help us in building up a good vocabulary .

Wat is important is the usage of words..there are words whose literal meaning is completely different from its contextual usage....a good example being DESCANT... We can have an altogether different section where we pick the daily words and come back with their meanings and usage.

I
have started a vocabulary thread in CAT Verbal Forum. I will be posting 10
words every hence and forth over there. Please do the exercises regularly. I
want all of you to possess a good vocabulary when you go for your interviews
and GD PIs. After all, you belong to the â€˜Gadha Familyâ€™.

There is a submit button on the left hand side of every question in the 'quiz section' itself. You can check your answers one by one or towards the end of the page there is a 'submit all' button where you can check your answers in one go. Regarding the discussion, many students discuss their sentence correction questions in 'GMAT Verbal Forum'. You start posting your problems there and we will take care of them

In Proposal 5:- Listen to what nouns suggest, if they suggest one idea to the mind, or refer to same person or thing, then the verb would rather stay single....

U have given the exampkle - "Bread and Butter is kept in the refrigerator"..they are different things altogether...neither they are under "single idea" group...so shud it be "Bread and Butter are kept in the refrigerator"...Please clearify this point.

Hi Dagny,Its related to the "Subject-Verb Agreement " article posted on TG verbal lesson and also some more doubts.

Doubt 1:

In proposal 9 u have mentioned "Proposal 9:- When noun denotes some specific quantity or amount considered as a whole, we should agree on a singular verb."...in one of teh examples u have given "The five thousand yen that he gave me was spent in a single day"..Shouldnt it be "Five thousand yen that he gave were spent in..."..as its a plural amount....Like as in 1 rupee was spent that day itself....and 5rupees were spent in takign that article.....Or if you want to say that how the wrod sounds...since it is "YEN"...so we use "was"...had it been "YENS"..we would have used "were"..like in case of Rupees..it sounds plural so we use "were"...and inc ase of Rupee we use "was"...

Doubt 2:

Please expolain the difference int eh usage of "SOmeone" and "Somebody":...when to use wat...similarly for "Anyone" and "Anybody"...Noone and noboody etc etc. i am totally confused about its usage.

Doubt 3:

Out of the following sentences which is correct??

a) I, along with Sumit and Manish, am going to Kolkata.b) I,along with Sumit and Manish, are going to Kolkata.

I am eagerly waiting for the reply...As the these doubts had always been with me for quite a long time but nobody could tell it clearly.

.Discrimination in wages paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have given rise to substantial differentials between the wage of housepainters and secretaries and between the wages of parking-lot attendants and library assistants.

(A) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have

(B) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over those that are predominantly female have

(C) that favors predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female have

(D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female hasï¼ˆEï¼‰

(E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has

Must congratulate you and TG guys for creating this blog and posting such knowlegeable sessions...! I hv just started preparin for 08 and really getting a lot of helpp from this blog...I am making daily vissits here and have decided to post my ansers also. I know repliess has been posted already but I am taking another approach which you have suggested already(not sure whr you have suggested that). The appproach which I am going to take is to find the reason/rule, why the particular option is correct/incorrect.

Based on the above theory I am going to post you my replies and if you got tym from your schedule, I request you to please have a look on ma replies and lett me know whether I have used the correct rule or not..Hope you'll do the needful...

Again my intention is not to find the correct answr but to apply the rule on options...!

Here I goooâ€¦.

1. Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.

(A) were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal â€“split 2/3 rule used

(B) was anger for repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal â€“" among the emotions " â€“ singular verb should be used as collective noun has been used.

(C) were anger over repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin healing â€“ were cnt be used as mentioned above

(D) was anger about the issue, which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles, still raw, to begin healingâ€“ raised is bringing up a child; word usage is wrong

(E) were anger about the issue, which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin to heal â€“ were is not be used

2. Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

(A) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its--- 2/3 rule

(B) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds and pose the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to theirâ€”subject is brown recluse spiders which is collective in nature so singular verb to be used and so as singular pronounâ€¦there is not singular

(C) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their-- subject is brown recluse spiders which is collective in nature so singular verb to be used and so as singular pronounâ€¦there is not singular

(D) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(E) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to itsâ€”again they cant be used with pronoun "its"

Hence D

3. After this yearâ€™s record-shattering January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble were touted as the countryâ€™s best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians.

(A) the ensemble were touted as the countryâ€™s â€“ 2/3

(B) the ensemble was touted as the countryâ€™s â€“in statement ensemble is a group so singular verb is to be usedâ€”it seems correct

(C) the country touted the ensemble like the â€“like is not the correct usage

(D) touting the ensemble as the countryâ€™sâ€”touting is in present tense, and had is in past. Tense redundancy

(E) they were touting the ensemble as the countryâ€™sâ€”pronoun should refer to an antecedent which is not present.

4. A new phenomena, which is visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and mob cars at the stoplights.

(A) A new phenomena, which is visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and â€“2/3

(B) Visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections are waves of vendors and beggars with many children, new phenomena that â€“not correct sentence formation, also pronoun which(should refer to persons) got clicked into my mind and then started looking into other options

(C) A new phenomenon visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them children, who---Pheneomenon subject should have a singular verb

(D) Phenomenally new waves of vendors, beggars, and many children are visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections, whichâ€” not correct sentence formation, should start with "phenomenon"

(E) A wave of vendors and beggars, many of whom are children, are visible at Managuaâ€™s major intersections, where they are a new phenomenon and-- not correct sentence formation, should start with "phenomenon"

5. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increaseâ€”2/3

(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percentâ€”the first thing that came into my mind is data redundancu of word grew and increase. Both have same meaning so sentence should not contain both the options

(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percentâ€”raised is bringing up

(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percentâ€”looks correct

(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increaseâ€”same reason as in option c

6. Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(A) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(B) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component in municipal trash, many municipalities tried to recycle so that the cost of trash disposal is reduced. â€“look at word so that the making sentence redundant

(C) Because paper of all kinds are the biggest single components in municipal trash, many municipalities have tried to recycle to reduce the cost of trash disposal.- paper of all kinds is singular so singular verb is to be used

(D) All kinds of paper are the biggest single components of municipal trash, and so many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.â€”Statement may giving reason to the paragraph thatâ€™s why Because word has been used so sentence should have the word "Because"

(E) All kinds of paper is the biggest single component of municipal trash, so many municipalities have tried to recycle so that the cost of trash disposal could be reduced.-- Statement may giving reason to the paragraph thatâ€™s why Because word has been used so sentence should have the word "Because"

Hence A

7. Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic characters, each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its own square frame.

(A) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its--

This Example is given in Chapter Pronoun , refer that. By the way my explanation is subject is Chinese so singular verb should be there.

(B) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

(C) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside its-- Pronoun should refer to its antecedent rule applied

(D) every character a miniature calligraphic composition inside theirâ€”Pronoun should refer to its antecedent rule applied

(E) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their-- Pronoun should refer to its antecedent rule applied

8. Discrimination in wages paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have given rise to substantial differentials between the wage of housepainters and secretaries and between the wages of parking-lot attendants and library assistants.

(A) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have

-- using 2/3 split rule--leaving this option

(B) paid in occupations that are predominantly make over those that are predominantly female have -- make over is something I feel awkward

(C) that favors predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female have -- Favours is beyound the scope, cnt extract the info from passage

(D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female has---- Favours is beyound the scope, cnt extract the info from passage

(E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has ---- This option giving the same idea as stated.

9. Displays of the aurora borealis, or "northern lights," can heat the atmosphere over the arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric currents that can cause blackouts in some areas and corrosion in north-south pipelines.

(A) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce --

(B) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected, induceâ€”verb are is making the sentence definite wheras above sentence looks like may or may not kind of situation

(C) that it affects the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces --

(D) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected and inducesâ€”

(E) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles and induce

10. Dr. Sayreâ€™s lecture recounted several little-known episodes in the relations between nations that illustrates what is wrong with alliances and treaties that do not have popular support.

(A) relations between nations that illustrates

(B) relation of one nation with another that illustrates--Redundant

(C) relations between nations that illustrate â€“no opinions

(D) relation of one nation with another and illustrateï¼‰---Redundant

(E) relations of nations that illustrates â€“ seems correct

Dagny, could you please provide me the explanation of "9" as I somehow got stuck in the optionsâ€¦..

As of now I am providing
you with the explanation for the 9th question. Will check the rest
of the questions as soon as I get time.

The
use of the phrasing " can heat.. enough to affect" in A and E are
idiomatic. B produces an illogical and ungrammatical statement by making
"induce" parallel with the verb "heat" rather than with the
appropriate form of the verb affect.Clacks agreement in using the
singular pronoun "it" to refer to the plural noun
"displays".D - is faulty because "induces" cannot fit grammatically
with any noun in the sentence.A - incorrectly separates the two infinitives
"to affect" and "to induce" with a comma when it should
compound them with "and", as does E, the best choice.

I
also suggest that you downloadâ€™ Dagny Taggart file to CAT and GMATâ€™ from
â€˜Download it nowâ€™ section.

Accidentally when googled i came to know abt this site today and i am really mesmarized with the tons of content it posts!! I had given an attempt to CAT06 and was really dishearted with the result!! Did'nt cleared the vocab!!. Now i am working in an MNC but still persuing MBA is my dream. This site built a confidence in me to get lots of information which i missed all these days.Now i am starting again my CAT preparation and going for to crack the CAT 08. Thanks a lot Dangy/TG......

Needless to say, the article is fabulous. I have one doubt though. In proposal 7, is it possible for the noun "wages" to propose in more than one way as in "Wages of sin is death." and "His wages have gone up."?

The reference of second sentence is Collins COBUILD Dictionary. Although I could not find the same sentence on their site.

Proposal 9:- When noun denotes some
specific quantity or amount considered as a whole, we should agree on a
singular verb.One-fourth of the work is completed by
William.The five thousand yen that he gave me
was spent in a single day.

Here is/are the three books you wanted. Three fourths of the pizzas have/has been eaten.

According to your proposal 9 both of the above two sentences should have singular verb but the answer says otherwise. Hope you can clear this doubt.

hi dagny i could not understand wat u meant by the statement The
use of the phrasing " can heat.. enough to affect" in A and E are
idiomatic,in fact i had chosen E as my answer so could you please elaborate on this point.

Just wanted to thank you for these timeless articles you have put on this wonderful site!

I have been doing whatever I can in the last few days left to my exam (22nd), and getting better scores everytime (8/10, 23/25 etc) at least in verbal...

Hope the trend continues...

Also, I want to let you and TG sir know that for the past 3 and half month or so, I am totally "into" this site ( that means I have literally kicked aside the loads of materials from other insti. and completely relied on this site for my preparation)- and with a reason- quality!

I have a special love for the language and a creative field like Advertising- I don't know how I ended up doing Engg in IT! So, am also trying for MICA this year.

The sole purpose of this long post was to let you and all the potential TGites that- TG, IS IT .

Going back to my studies now, take care and I wish that any MBA aspirant in future be a "Gadha" first(Not that they won't be, afterwards)

In proposal 2, you have mentioned plural nouns go with plural verbs. The example sentence 'Clothes Stay' is having a singular verb. (I was thinking that 'stays' is the singular form and stay is plural 'form'). Please advise.

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I am little late in joining ths group..actually nt little bt very late...
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